Cool, cool. I have a few people I'm holding onto passes for here and elsewhere. I'm going to let things shake out for a week or so (if they sell out that quickly) before I know where they're going.
I freaked out because I saw Rym retweet Emily buying tickets; it feels like they're selling them so early... My girlfriend had to get three 1-day passes for Prime this year, so I said fuck it and bought 5 in case friends want to go too. >_<
While I can justify the ticket, I cannot justify the lodging or airfare to get over there this time around. Thanks to a number of factors, I was way too aggressive with my money this past year, and I need time to recover
Everyone buying extras is what exacerbates the problem to being with...
No way around that. Tragedy of the commons.
The problem is going to eventually be maximal even if everyone only buys one: demand is just far higher than supply.
With the possibility of tickets selling out early again, it's safer to buy multiple tickets for friends that don't know absolutely if they can make it yet (especially due to lack of organization last minute, regardless of the 4-month gap from now til then). Buying multiples is a feature, not a bug.
I've got an international trip coming up this year, possibly two. So I've gotta budget fairly tightly for vacations. Blah. Maybe I should just make more money.
I reserved a room at the Sea-whatever. Let me check with the wife tonight, re-evaluate what she is actually saying through her body language, and then assert my male dominance before I tell you if we can squeeze you in.
(also known as: let me check to see if my wife is coming this year before I say yes or no)
Did you ever stop to think as to why there seems to be an exponentially shrinking window of time to buy tickets? It's exactly your behavior. People feel that they should purchase as soon as possible just to entertain the possibility of going because the market signals that it's a high valued commodity. Then, when next year rolls around, even more people purchase because they remember that last it sold out super quick. They buy extras just in case their friends may or may not want to go causing the tickets to sell out even faster. It's a vicious cycle.
Did you ever stop to think as to why there seems to be an exponentially shrinking window of time to buy tickets? It's exactly your behavior. People feel that they should purchase as soon as possible just to entertain the possibility of going because the market signals that it's a high valued commodity. Then, when next year rolls around, even more people purchase because they remember that last it sold out super quick. They buy extras just in case their friends may or may not want to go causing the tickets to sell out even faster. It's a vicious cycle.
I want to play the correlation-is-not-causation card, and I'd argue that ticket-buying is only part of the equation. The increased popularity of PAXes and the fact that they're not increasing the attendee size also play heavily into said cycle. The irony of course is that creating more PAX events (as evidenced by the first PAX East) doesn't spread attendees out across events, but rather attracts the same attendees to multiple events.
I still hold up the argument of feature-not-bug. They could easily limit purchases, eg., 1 ticket per credit card.
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See y'all there for the first time ever!
The problem is going to eventually be maximal even if everyone only buys one: demand is just far higher than supply.
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I can't order for the next 30 minutes or so, though...
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(also known as: let me check to see if my wife is coming this year before I say yes or no)
I still hold up the argument of feature-not-bug. They could easily limit purchases, eg., 1 ticket per credit card.